The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-10-12

| all the records of real estate In all that
| Oriental country and see what whey ard,
Or what house, or what field be owned
Not one. OF what mortgage was he the
mortgagees or what tenement was hethe
landlords OF what lease was he the leggees
| Who ever paid him rents Not owning the
boat on which he sailed, or tina beast on
which he rode, Or the pillow olwhichs he
slept. He had SO little estate thatfn order
to pay his tax he had to perforrla mirscle,
putting the amount of the assess
ment in fish's mouth and having 1t
hauled ashore. And after his death the
| world rushed in to take an inventory of
his goods, and the entire aggregate was
the garments he had worn, sleeping in
| them by night and travelling in them by
day, bearing on them the dust Of the high
way and the saturation of the sea. Paul
in my text did not go far from hitting the
mark, did he, when he said OF the mis-
sionary Prince:
| For your salSes he became poors
The world could Lave treated him better
| II it had chosen. 1t had all the means for
making his earthly condition comfort
| able. Only a few years before, when
Pompey, the General, arrived at Brindisi,
he was greeted with arches and a costly
=
people whom he had killed or con luered,
| and he was allowed to wear his trilmphal
robe in the Senate. The worl6. had APP
plause for imperial butchers but buffeting
| for the Prince of Peace; plenty Of
golden chalices for the favored to
drink out OF, but our Prince must
put his lips to the bucket of
the we'll by the roadside after he had
begged for drink. Poor? Born in an
other mans barn and eating at another
mans table, and cruising the lake In an
other mans fishing smack, and buried in
another mans mausoleum. Four inspired
authors wrote Of his biography, and in
Vulnerable lives of Christ have been pub
lished, but he composed his autobiog-
raphy in most compressed way. He
! safd
| Ihaven trodden the wine-press alone.
| Poor in the estimation OF nearly all the
prosperous classes. They called him Sab
bath breaker, wine-bibber, traitor, BIAS
| phemer, and ransacked the dictionary of
| opprobrium from It'd to lid to express their
| detestation. / can think now of only two
well-to-do men who espoused his cause,
| Nicodemus and Joseph, of Arimathea. Eis
| friends for the most part We're people who,
| in that climate where ophthalmy or in
| Illumination Of the eye ball sweeps ever
| and anon as a scourge, had become blind,
| sick people who were anxious to get we'll,
and troubled people i'll whose family
| there was some one dead or
! dying. If he had purse at all it was
| empty, or we would have heard what was
done with the contents at the post-mor-
tenn. Poor? The pigeon in the dove-cote,
the rabbit in its burrow, the silk-worm in
| its cocoon, the bee in its hive is better pro-
vided for, better Off, better sheltered.
Aye, the brute creation has q home on
earth, which Christ had not.
II on windy days the raven Il
G'ambol like q dancing skif,
Not the less he loves his haven
On the bosom OF the cliff 4
II almost with eagle pinion
Ger the Alps the channels roam,
Yet he has some small dominion sss@AsSe
Which. no doubt, he calls his home.
But the Crown Prince of all heavenly
dominion had less than the raven, less
than the chamois, for he was homeless.
Aye, in the history of the universe there
Is no other instance Of such coming down.
Who can count the miles from the top of
the throne to the bottom of the CROSSE
Cleopatra, giving a banquet to Anthony,
took pearl worth 100000 and dissolved
in vinegar and swallowed it. But when
our Prince, according to the evangelist, in
his last hours took the vinegar, in it had
been dissolved all the pearls of His
heavenly royalty. Down until there was
no other depth for Him to touch, troubled
until there was no other harassment to
suffer, poor until there was no other
pauperism to torture. Billions of dollars
spent in wars to destroy men, who will
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danied that. and so here. in anothe,
continent aud in another bamisnbara
and in scenes as different as possible
we recount. as well we NAV. how pooi
our Heavenly Prince became. And in thf
other HOLY Land above we NAV all study
tho ,icbes that he left lahind when III,
startad For EARTHLY axneaitiop. Come lei
us bargain to meet each other at the door
of the Fathers mansion, or on the bank OF
the river just where it rolls from under the
throne, or at the outside gate Jesus gos
the contrast by exchanging that world TO,
this we will get. it by exchanging this
world for that. There and then you will
understand more OF the wonders of th
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who,
Though he was rich. vet Tor your sakes became
poor ~
Yes. grace. free GRACE. sovereign grace